[B-Greek] CH Dodd quoting the Corpus Hermeticum
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 3 05:21:04 EDT 2007
On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Stephen Baldwin wrote:
> Brethren:
> continuing (from Schurer) my penchant for reading authors who make
> claims on
> my modicum of greek knowledge, I was wondering whether someone
> might be kind
> enough to clarify my elementary understanding.
> Dodd ("...Fourth Gospel" p13) quotes the CH thus:
> Asklepios to King Ammon: FANHSETAI GAR SOI KAI TOIS EMOIS ENIOIS
> LOGOIS
> ANTIFWNOS
>
> I originally looked at this and thought that Asklepios said "For it
> will be
> visible (clear?) to you [that] also some of my words are
> contradictory" but
> ANTIFWNOS is not modifying "some of my words" since it does not
> agree in
> case and number.
>
> I now think he is saying "...He (Hermes, the main author of the CH)
> will be
> seen contradictory to you as well as some of my own
> words" (apologies for
> the clumsy translation but I think you get the gist...).
> That is, ANTIFWNOS is qualifying the implied 3S in FANHSETAI --
> correct?
> Thus it is that both Hermes and Asklepios have contradictions in their
> writings ("words" or whatever)...?
>
> All corrections welcomed.
I'd like to see more of a context before being confident, but I'm
inclined to think that the first dative, SOI, construes with
FANHSETAI, and only the second, TOIS EMOIS ENIOIS LOGOIS, construes
with ANTIFWNOS. That would yield: "For he will seem to you
contradictory to some of my statements."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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